Last month my daughter and I went to London to 'see the sights' and watch "War Horse".

It was a lovely day!

First we went to see the wonderful ceramic poppy installation at the Tower of London.

I decided to use my photos from this visit to make my "September Inspired By" layout for SNS

This is the sketch...

And this is my layout...

I added a photo of a real poppy (taken at Ickworth NT property the previous day)

The following element is a copy of a card I made last November using a poppy die-cut.

My tags tell of how poppies have become synonymous with great loss of life in war, following the association with poppies flowering in the Spring of 1915 on the battlefields of 1915 of Belgium, France and Galipoli and include the words of John McCrae's poem

In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.

Friday, 5 September 2014

The new challenge at LOC is sponsored by Aurora Wings with the theme "Tag It!"!
Do hope you will join in!

I made a tag - and firstly made some backgrounds...
These were made by smearing a variety of Distress Inks onto an acrylic block, dropping on some blending solution and then mopping up with card.

I chose a blue-y pink one to mat and layer onto a tag shape.
Using similar coloured Promarkers and matting, I coloured Aurora WingsHydrangea Fairy
Finally I added some pink ribbon and floral embellishments...